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Twin TROPICS satellites set to be lofted into orbit
Rocket Lab's launch of NASA's second pair of TROPICS hurricane research satellites, reassigned from Astra following a launch failure last year, has been rescheduled for Sunday after a delay due to unfavorable weather at the the company's New Zealand spaceport.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has now flown more than 50 times
NASA’s pioneering Mars helicopter Ingenuity continues to outperform its design specifications, having now notched up more than 50 record-breaking forays across the Red Planet’s surface, 10 times as many flights as originally planned for.
Emirati orbiter captures up-close view of Martian moon Deimos
The United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe has seen the far side of the Martian moon Deimos up close for the first time, collecting compositional data suggesting it may have formed from material that broke off of Mars long ago, and not from a captured asteroid.
VideoEurope launches spacecraft on eight-year journey to explore Jupiter’s moons
An Ariane 5 rocket took off from French Guiana Friday with the heaviest interplanetary science probe ever launched, kicking off a $1.7 billion European Space Agency mission on a decade-long quest to Jupiter’s icy moons in search of environments that could be habitable for life.
Lightning threat delays launch of Europe’s first mission to Jupiter
The liftoff of Europe's first mission to Jupiter aboard an Ariane 5 rocket was scrubbed Thursday in French Guiana due to a high risk of lightning at the launch site, delaying until Friday the start of the JUICE spacecraft's voyage of exploration.
VideoLive coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches Europe’s first mission to Jupiter
After the threat of lightning kept the mission on the ground Thursday, Arianespace and the European Space Agency successfully launched an Ariane 5 rocket Friday from Kourou, French Guiana, with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, a robotic spacecraft embarking on an eight-year journey to the solar system's largest planet. Liftoff with ESA's JUICE spacecraft occurred at 8:14 a.m. EDT (1214 UTC).
JUICE’s launch campaign in imagery
These photos and a time lapse video from the European Space Agency chronicle the final preparations for launch of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, spacecraft from the Guiana Space Center on the second-to-last Ariane 5 rocket.
VideoEurope’s first mission to Jupiter poised for launch from South America
The European Space Agency's $1.7 billion robotic Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission is ready for liftoff Thursday from French Guiana, beginning an eight-year cruise to the solar system's largest planet before becoming the first-ever spacecraft to orbit one of Jupiter's moons in the 2030s.
Japanese space science missions facing delays after H3 rocket failure
The launch of a Japanese X-ray telescope and robotic lunar lander has been delayed to no earlier than August, and the launch schedule for another Japanese mission to return samples from a moon of Mars is in doubt as engineers investigate the failure of Japan's first H3 rocket last month.
China releases first pictures from Zhurong rover since Mars landing
China's space agency released the first pictures from the Zhurong Mars rover rover Wednesday, showing the six-wheel robot ready to drive down a ramp from its landing platform to begin exploring the Red Planet.